Robert T. Metz v. Independent Trust Corporation, an Illinois Corporation

COFFEY, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff-appellant Robert Metz sued the defendant-appellee Independent Trust Corporation (“Intrust”) for breach of trust in federal court based on diversity jurisdiction. See 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (1988). The district court entered summary judgment in favor of Intrust on February 20, 1992. The plaintiff filed a timely notice of appeal. We affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

Robert Metz, a Connecticut resident, is a former Wall Street Journal reporter and author of Black Monday: The Catastrophe of October 19, 1987 ... and Beyond (1988), a book on the stock market crash of 1987. While…